About thirty human footprints made approximately 12,000 years B.P. inside the ‘Sala dei Misteri’ Cave of Basura near Toirano, Liguria, northern Italy, were studied by standard ichnological analysis. Eleven of the best-preserved tracks were examined further using morpho-classificatory and morphometric approaches, in order to estimate the minimum number of trackmakers; biometric measurements were also used to tentatively determine their physical characteristics (e.g., height and age). Results indicate at least three different producers, two youths and the third of tender age. Analysis of the data demonstrate the power of 3D, of landmark-based morphometrics, and the utility of methods of forensic anthropology in the determination of human footprints. The study of the number of trackmakers using the principal component analysis (PCA) on 'multi-trampling' surfaces could represent a model in the ichnological study of cave sites.
Reviewing the upper Pleistocene human footprints from the ‘Sala dei Misteri’in the Grotta della Bàsura (Toirano, northern Italy) cave. An integrated morphometric and morpho-classificatory approach / Citton, Paolo; Romano, Marco; Salvador, Isabella; Avanzini, Marco. - In: QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS. - ISSN 0277-3791. - STAMPA. - 169:(2017), pp. 50-64. [10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.016]
Reviewing the upper Pleistocene human footprints from the ‘Sala dei Misteri’in the Grotta della Bàsura (Toirano, northern Italy) cave. An integrated morphometric and morpho-classificatory approach
Citton, Paolo;Romano, Marco
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2017
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About thirty human footprints made approximately 12,000 years B.P. inside the ‘Sala dei Misteri’ Cave of Basura near Toirano, Liguria, northern Italy, were studied by standard ichnological analysis. Eleven of the best-preserved tracks were examined further using morpho-classificatory and morphometric approaches, in order to estimate the minimum number of trackmakers; biometric measurements were also used to tentatively determine their physical characteristics (e.g., height and age). Results indicate at least three different producers, two youths and the third of tender age. Analysis of the data demonstrate the power of 3D, of landmark-based morphometrics, and the utility of methods of forensic anthropology in the determination of human footprints. The study of the number of trackmakers using the principal component analysis (PCA) on 'multi-trampling' surfaces could represent a model in the ichnological study of cave sites.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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